Senator Rufus Holman. Holman served as a Republican United States Senator for Oregon during WWII, after previously serving as the state’s treasurer and on a board of commissioners. However, Holman was an isolationist. Although he supported WWII, he was critical of the expansive foreign policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Holman clearly would have been an obstacle to U.S. support for the formation of a Jewish State in Palestine. From the ADL’s perspective, Holman had to go.

On April 10, 1944, Holman asked for an FBI and Justice Department investigation into the ADL’s orchestration of a boycott against his business and reelection campaign via a primary challenge. According to an internal FBI memo:

"Senator Holman stated he understood that the purpose of the organization was to uncover anti-Jewish statements and that the Jews would then boycott people who were reported to make such remarks without a hearing or chance to be heard...He further remarked that there was no check upon the activities of the Anti-Defamation League... "

Before running any check into whether statutes had been violated, the Portland FBI office confirmed it had a problem. It was carrying attorney David Robinson, head of the ADL Oregon office, as Confidential Informant #7 “on the Bureau’s records…

” The FBI’s confidential informant “Robinson is endeavoring to line up the Jewish vote behind Wayne Morse [Homan’s primary challenger].”

FBI Special Agent David A. Silver of Portland reported that the pressure was on from the ADL,

“Jack Barde of the Barde Steel Company and Abe Gilbert of the Gilbert Hardware Company, both of Portland, and both Jews, gave a dinner for Senator Holman. Silver said he was heard that Robinson chided them for doing so.”

Holman wanted an investigation into the core purpose of the ADL, listing four key questions.

“Is the Anti-Defamation League recognized officially by the Government and the United States? How do they determine who is Anti-Semitic? What is their weapon? Who finances it? Who contributes to it and in what amounts?”

The Department of Justice refused to investigate, and the FBI retained the services of its confidential informant. Senator Wayne Morse defeated Holman in the primary and won the general election in November of 1944. He was unwavering in his drive to deliver ever larger U.S. aid packages to Israel, claiming it was the moral obligation of every American.

The donors who matter to AIPAC, and pay for most of its program, all contribute more than $5k. To make a tax-deductible donation to a lobby (501 c 4) many pay it out of their law firm/corporate checkbook.

"Wolf Blitzer used to work at the Near East Report, a conduit for laundering Jewish Agency money to AIPAC through founder Isaiah Kenen. So when Blitzer shouts 'Israel is in Danger', he MEANS it! Can't you contribute $5,000, $50,000 or $65,000 today so we can make sure American's polled desire not to choose sides is never reflected in Congress?"

Since it's Israel, it's probably too much to ask the State Dept. to follow U.S. law and revoke the citizenship of any American serving in Israel as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer.

"Although a person's enlistment in the armed forces of a foreign country may not constitute a violation of U.S. law, it could subject him or her to the provisions of Section 349(a)(3) of the INA [8 U.S.C. 1481(a)(3)] which provides for loss of U.S. nationality if a U.S national voluntarily and with the intention of relinquishing U.S. nationality enters or serves in the armed forces of a foreign state engaged in hostilities against the United States or serves in the armed forces of any foreign country as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer."

Jeffrey Goldberg and Haaretz diplomatic correspondent Ravid David are trying to paint the article as antisemitic. David: "The claim that spying on the US is an Israeli tradition like eating Matzo on passover. This is antisemitic." Goldberg is wounded too, or trying to be: "A story about "aggressive" Jews that contains weird references to matzo is a little strange."

Of course, Stein wrote about Israel, not "Jews." To get a bona fide weird reference, you'd have to watch Jeffrey Goldberg's farewell address to Abraham Foxman at the ADL last week, when he made the curious preface that "Jewish people can sometimes be annoying, sometimes be exasperating."

Fiddler on the Roof is great stuff. However, an integral part of the AIPAC/Jewish Agency public relations plan to promote all things Israel has been "counteraction of all activities carried out here by the Arabs..."

The cited plan is from 1962-1963, but it is reasonable to assume the same "counteraction" program is underway. Be interesting to compare the current "counteraction" budget with the "spreading Islamophobia" budget.

Nah. That particular PPoint slide, of data and findings from Telegeography, could have been found in the deck of any telecom consultant for the last 20 years. There's utterly nothing remarkable about it, except that apparently NSA "geniuses" need to be trained on the basics of modern telecom.

The NSA shipping data wholesale to Israel, after Obama approved it (while simultaneously quashing the AIPAC espionage prosecution) on the other hand is alarming, especially if the MOA is in place right now...

There has to be new reasons the U.S. is starting to deny visas to Israeli intel/defense people trying to enter the country.

John Dingell was relentless investigating the Israeli/ZOA theft and diversion of weapons-grade uranium from the NUMEC plant in Apollo, PA. That would be a very hard thing for the Conference of Presidents to forget.

Although he was never able to get warranted prosecutions/consequences for the Israelis, he did state unequivocally that he believed the Zionists in charge of the plant, including smuggler for Israel, David Lowenthal, looted the plant.

Today, Congress is scrambling to transfer the $500 million cleanup costs and health bill of the undercapitalized smuggling front to U.S. taxpayers, as the Obama adminstration works to keep LBJ-era CIA files out of the public domain.

North and Weiss set up a list of conditions that cannot be met. So I add two more:

Pollard was tasked to collect highly sensitive information by file number, so the Israelis should be also required to hand over the name of the other spy embedded much higher up in the U.S. national security infrastructure.

Oh, and turn over for prosecution Israeli spymaster Rafi Eitan who ran Pollard (and also penetrated the NUMEC facility in PA for the uranium)...

It is not surprising that no mainstream media has picked up the recent statements of M.E. "Spike" Bowman, the counter intel guy who wrote SecDef Weinberger's memorandum in aid of sentencing that got Pollard life.

On March 7, Bowman characterized Pollard in the "top four" rank of spies against the U.S. in terms of total damage.

If any American dares complain to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on counterfeit Chinese-made soap entering the U.S. under the U.S. - Israel trade agreement, they will be told they "lack standing" and given the run-around.

Perhaps such "enforcement" is what makes it the worst performing bilateral agreement (by one metric) ever signed.

It is fairly routine for State Department findings to be utterly ignored by Congress on matters relating to Israel.

In preambles to AIPAC-sponsored legislation to confer "Major Strategic Ally" status on Israel its record as not proliferating or misusing U.S. supplied arms is stated—refuting Israel's documented misuse in many State Department Inspector General audits such as:

When AIPAC was the unincorporated lobbying division of the American Zionist Council, the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency (which had access to tax exempt American donations and Israeli government funding) laundered money to AIPAC founder Isaiah Kenen for AIPAC through his privately owned lobbying newsletter "Near East Report." But the Jewish Agency also paid Kenen/proto AIPAC on occasion directly. See the payment voucher below:

It's hard to claim, with all that foreign start-up funding, AIPAC never received foreign funding. The Jewish Agency, by the way, also funded the JPPPI, which funded Dennis Ross. That's not to mention the Jewish Agency's role funding the illegal smuggling of arms from Nahum Bernstein's office in New York, also well-documented, but unfortunately not well-prosecuted.

AIPAC incorporated just six weeks after its parent, the AZC, was ordered to register as a foreign agent. Hard to see it—with all the foreign seed money— as anything but a continuation organization that should also register as a foreign agent.

Back in the day when the Jewish Agency was funneling overseas payola to AIPAC founder Isaiah Kenen and the New York Times, in the latter case presumably it was to pump out propaganda to sell Israel to Americans.

However Friedman is paid, the content of much of his writing indicates that's his job as well. How the heck would any of those proposed replacements possibly tell Americans that the nuclear triggers Arnon Milchan smuggled from California to Israel were "cholent heaters". They couldn't possibly, hence, no outsourcing.

If he does renounce Israeli citizenship, it will look as though he thinks it is some sort of "flag of convenience" like in the cargo shipping industry. US citizenship is not a flag of convenience.

Also, the Fed actually wants its bank examiners to be U.S. citizens, for sound reasons. See the Antiwar piece for their wording. How is it the same does not apply to the top positions?

Unmentioned by the article is the Foreign Agents Registration Act angle. Fischer worked with U.S. officials on behalf of a foreign government, in a foreign central bank, but in a non-diplomatic capacity.

Stanley Fischer, while at the IMF, was king of punishing developing economies with harsh austerity measures.

Stanley Fischer, while on the Reagan administration's U.S. Israel Joint Economic Discussion Group transformed U.S. aid by tripling it, and turning it into outright grants rather than loans, while unilaterally lowering US trade barriers to Israel (producing a chronic deficit).

Fischer, freshly back in the US after a stint as governor of the Bank of Israel, wants the #2 seat at the Fed. See why at:

"I wonder how many folks in Hollywood knew of the allegations regarding Pollack? And approved."

Actually, the FBI knew in 1992 according to files released under FOIA.

"Record of a phone call between a supervisory special agent in Los Angeles and a special agent in Portland classified as "secret." The special agent notifies LA of impending news media coverage of "an extremely successful movie producer in Hollywood" [Arnon Milchan] noting his ties to "Oliver Stone, Sidney Pollack, Barbara Streisand, Tom Cruise, Richar Dreyfuss and Robert DeNiro. The subject's likely location and wealth "close to $1 billion" and close ties to "Labor Party officials in Israel" is noted. Milchan's arms dealing through MILCO and ties to another American are explored in the heavily redacted file.

Sure, they know. But US mainstream media still always qualifies its existence with the words "suspected", "alleged, " "unacknowledged," etc, as if, after Vanunu's pictures and Jimmy Carter's confirmation, "Israel and the Bomb" "The Samson Option", etc. there's any legitimate doubt.

The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations used to list the American Section of the WZO as a constituent among its 50 member orgs. It has now dropped WZO from its illustrious rolls (yet curiously still shares an office with the WZO American Section in New York).

Of course, like the order to register the AZC / AIPAC, and Jewish Agency's American Section, the DOJ did not uphold its duty to enforce the order, and left the American people (true beneficiaries of FARA transparency) hung out to dry.

ZOA provided two executives (Ivan Novick and Zalman Shapiro) to the tiny plant that "lost" the most u-235 in American history (investigated for diversion to Israel).http://irmep.org/ILA/numec/default.asp

Although ZOA was required to publicly declare a social welfare purpose concordant with past activities in order to reinstate its recently lost tax-exempt status over failure to file tax returns, it has apparently regained such status without complying with IRS requirements. (The IRS cannot find an application form 1024 or 2010 tax return).

Just another rogue Israel lobby organization undermining America through the acquiescence of regulatory and law enforcement agencies.

In it's official history, ADL was born of B'nai B'rith's (a Jewish fraternal organization's) horror about the unjust conviction of Leo Frank and his lynching by an anti-semitic mob.

The documentary record seems to reveal that Leo Frank murdered his employee Mary Phagen, tried to frame a worker at his factory, and at the time of the lynching was the beneficiary of behind-the-scenes manipulations of the judiciary that were on the verge of unwinding his case.

If Frank was guilty, it raises the question, what is the true purpose of the ADL? Preserving the invulnerability of B'nai B'rith, similar groups and later the infallibility of Israel through espionage and covert action (some of it apparently in coordination with the FBI)? Certainly what it seems to fit the pattern of 100 years of strange ADL activities and incredible attempts to penetrate the FBI.

In reading decades of FBI records about the group's (often illegal) tactics, the only thing that seemed to have a positive impact was widespread publicity.

When the ADL went after Senator Rufus Holman, he could not find any venue to clear his name after they smeared his reelection campaign and boycotted his business. The FBI was reluctant to do anything since the head of the Portland FBI office carried David Robinson, head of the ADL Oregon office, as Confidential Informant #7 "on the Bureau's records.... A toxic mix for impunity.

There are times when broadcasting at NPR seems like a concerted effort of studied ignorance. The stream of WINEP pundits are never identified as working for an AIPAC think tank, b/c that might raise questions about why they are so prominently featured.

I guess you have to have special investigative powers to figure it all out. e.g.:

Pincus news articles about foreign agents triggered the Fulbright hearings in the early 1960s. He openly accused various Jewish Agency funded operatives of buying and manipulating Congress, documenting it with subpoenaed files as a Senate investigator.

Great observations. Now why would a smart guy like Obama throw Syria to the most dysfunctional Congress ever....?

Americans had yet another chance to see the mainstream media invite the usual parade of war-mongers and pseudo-analysts, the minority yet pro-war, onto the Sunday yack shows, NPR, CNN, Fox etc, as if Iraq never happened. In DC, the Diane Rehm show dripped non-stop with liberal interventionist and neocon war venom, from the usual sources.

If a poll were taken, it is likely that viewer contempt for how big media performed, would show huge disappointment. Big media, with a few exceptions, failed again. Thankfully, the Internet was there to provide a venue for intelligent rebuttal, educated debate, informed comment, and ridicule.

In 2001, then-Sen. Joe Biden urged the Zionist Organization of America's leadership and Israel's government to keep disagreements with the U.S. government private, and never argue publicly for all the world press to hear at a ZOA event.

Wonder what sage (and vaguely conspiratorial) advice Biden will unfurl at this one. Hopefully he'll again speak extemporaneously and someone will deliver a transcript to the unwashed masses gathered outside.

"As we noted yesterday, the New York Times doesn’t think it’s news that the National Security Agency is sharing intelligence data it collects on Americans with Israel. "

There are other Israel-related subjects the NYT doesn't cover:

1. The Israeli nuclear weapons program (including clandestine funding, proliferation, waste issues).
2. Misuse of U.S. foreign aid to Israel, including loan guarantees, funds to the Jewish Agency.
3. Israel payola to U.S. journalists and academics (including the NYTimes).

A careful review of many New York Times stories reveals that often, when they break a story, it is incredibly misleading, yet never corrected. Other times, they have been more truthful overseas than to U.S. readers (not so much these Internet days). Consider the NUMEC diversion to Israel story:

9/18/1966 Paris Edition, New York Times "US Plant Loses 100 kilos of U-235"
9/17/1966 US Edition, New York Times "Uranium Losses Spur Drive for Tighter US Control of Fissionable Materials"

It's simply not in the NYT's DNA to provide straight coverage about Israel.

Greenwald cites a top secret NSA memo dated September 2007 with this gem:

"The survival of the state of Israel is a paramount goal of US Middle East policy."

....slotting in the definition of "paramount" it reads:

"The survival of the state of Israel is more important than anything else; the supreme goal of US Middle East policy."

Sure explains a lot. However, most Americans would probably be unpleasantly surprised at that such a secret "Prime Directive" is being taken for marching orders in key federal agencies. There's no accountability, and no effort can be too great if that's the policy.

Not aware of any rising public awareness about AIPAC. The polls seem to all indicate overall public "war weariness" is the key factor driving opposition. Rare is the polling question that ever comes anywhere near the Israel lobby.

It's optimistic at this point to judge widespread opposition to Syria strikes says much about the key issues discussed on MW.

Dunno. Think of how valuable he'll become to AIPAC if he has a sudden-and timely- "change of heart" and decides suddenly that there are vital U.S. interests at stake. Prodigal son fable and all that. Again, we know he's an avid-learner open to AIPAC coaching. And just a politician. And he's now cornered the market on opposition.

Grayson is educated, eloquent and effective, but he apparently doesn't know anything about AIPAC.

He may think that by over-generalizing AIPAC into just another lobby, along with the nebulous military-industrial complex, he's has carved out a position that's defensible against an Israel-lobby orchestrated attack.

But think of the other effective members of Congress who had such defensible, principal-based positions. Fulbright, Findley, Percy, McKinney... Sooner or later, their weaknesses were probed and they were pounded. They're only politicians, with all the vulnerabilities.... Gotta wonder if Grayson plans to run for re-election, because many in Florida will remember his media blitz.

The last time AIPAC faced odds this bad was 1984. The Israeli government wanted tariff-free access to the American market, in exchange for basically nothing. 74 US industry groups were lobbying hard against trade concessions. 22 relatively small groups and AIPAC were lobbying for it.

AIPAC obtained the classified compendium of US industry negotiating points from the ITC, via Israeli Minister of Economics Dan Halpern, and used their data against them in a lobbying and PR campaign. The FBI investigation (espionage/theft of government property) went nowhere. AIPAC lobbyists swarmed Capitol Hill.

Some, like Ester Kurz, who handled the classified info in 1984, will be lobbying for war on Syria.

It is reasonable to expect any and all AIPAC dirty tricks will be unleashed to make sure Congress defies American public opinion on the war resolution.

Rosen owes the Obama administration his freedom. Absent DOJ political appointees that reigned in his Espionage Act prosecution, there's a good possibility that he and his coworker would be sitting in a jail cell after they passed purloined classified information to their Israeli "diplomat" friends.

Obama can rest assured that, just like the Reagan administration after the sordid Iran-Contra affair went south, Rosen will always be there with unsolicited advice to further the interests of his Israeli principals.

Thanks to the Syria Accountability Act, a law courteous of AIPAC and sponsor Eliot L. Engel, most relevant US ties to Syria were cut off in 2003. All room for maneuver and actually getting some perceivable benefit out of the US State Department was simply legislated out of existence.

So it's not very credible to suddenly "discover" and then wonder how Israel's lobby might "help the president in his" initiative. In the big picture, this is not Obama's initiative, but rather a decades old Israel lobby drive to to ultimately tripwire the U.S. into conflict with Syria and Iran.

Can't think a better outcome than sending students for reeducation at an organization with a long history of spying and subversion against legitimate Arab student, diplomatic and anti-Apartheid groups.

AIPAC appears to have blocked two no-brainer legal determinations. Classified US government publications are full of evidence that Israel is a nuclear weapons state. But legally determining that would mean cutting *direct* aid to Israel under the Symington and Glenn Amendments (or force presidents to publicly issue a "waiver" as with Pakistan, which might embarrass Israel).

It is also abundantly clear that Egypt underwent a coup d'état. But legally determining that would mean cutting what is essentially *indirect* aid to Israel.

The Jewish Agency has faced fierce opposition to US meddling in the past. Consider it was the Jewish Agency that:

a) helped set up a massive illegal weapons-smuggling network when David Ben-Gurion visited American Zionists in the 1940s; Most of the hundreds of smugglers and their backers became known to federal law enforcement.

b) funded the American Zionist Council (until ordered to register as a Foreign Agent by Kennedy) and its research division AIPAC (which spun off 6 weeks after the order) through hidden funding;

c) fought properly registering its American Section as a foreign agent of the Israeli government until law professor William Mallison forced DOJ scrutiny in the 1970s;

The Jewish Agency has siphoned $534 million from US taxpayers for "refugee resettlement" since the year 2000, but the spending is untraceable. So this latset move may essentially be making an (unwitting) U.S. taxpayer propagandize himself through dollars that never should have gone to the Jewish Agency in the first place.

Goldberg doesn't appear to know very much about the ZOA's history. Two of its high executives, Zalman Shapiro and Ivan Novick, delivered enough stolen US weapons-grade uranium for Israel to irradiate the planet (or perhaps create a nuclear winter).

The Anti-Defamation League disrupted an America First rally in Madison Square Garden using illegal means. Arnold Forster used stolen press credentials to infiltrate the meeting. When caught, they first offered a bribe, and then the Andrea Mitchell of the day, Walter Winchel wrote some press that the division that busted Forster would be "shaken up"

The campaign worked, and no charges were filed. Israel Lobby Archive link

The reason only a handful of America Zionists smugglers were ever punished, is that they got above the Justice Department to quash pending indictments. Or, as it reads in the Abraham Feinberg file: http://www.irmep.org/ila/

"...there were a lot of people involved in this affair [the Haganah/Sonneborn arms theft and smuggling network] and the Department of Justice knew it. He further pointed out that there were 70 people involved on the West Coast. Crum went on to state that it was necessary to have a group working rather than Feinberg and that it would be necessary to have a war chest. This group should include Feinberg who would act as chairman and be responsible for the disbursement of funds."

People wonder what all those millions of Israel lobby dollars buy. If you ask Marc Rich, Zalman Shapiro, Ben Ami-Kadish and Crown, and they were honest, they'd say "immunity."

Indyk is the wrong guy because he subverts American interests in favor of Israeli interests when the chips are down.

Case in point: in 1984 his AIPAC research team received confidential business secrets purloined by Israeli Economic Minister Dan Halpern, and turned them against US organizations lobbying against trade preferences for Israel.

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